# OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet’s Google have begun working together to clamp down on Chinese competitors.

*business · news · 2026-04-07 · Australian Financial Review*

## Key points

- OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are collaborating to counter Chinese extraction of AI model outputs.
- The companies are sharing intelligence via the Frontier Model Forum, founded in 2023 with Microsoft.
- Their focus is on detecting adversarial 'distillation' attempts that breach their terms of service.
- This joint effort marks a coordinated industry response to foreign misuse of advanced US AI models.

**Companies:** Alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic
**Countries:** United States

[Read the full story on Australian Financial Review](https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/openai-anthropic-google-unite-to-combat-model-copying-in-china-20260407-p5zlr5)

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